Nick Park Interview

I seen a brilliant interview with Nick Park on BBC iPlayer, he was BBC2's Culture Show on the 19th November 2009. One of the interesting things Nick talked about was that Gromit, from Wallace and Gromit was originally suppose to speak, but they found it took up too much time and effort. So instead he took inspiration from Eddie Murphy's facial expressions in the film "Trading Places". Where Eddie plays the street hustler Billy Ray Valentine and used the same sort of expressions for Gromit.

It was great to hear the professionals worry about their abilities and time constraints too. Which got me thinking maybe I could use figures like Wallace and Gromit to do my animation rather than draw the whole thing out. So I am going to do a little bit of research on this and see how hard it would be to do.